With the weather cooling, insects and the like are getting harder to find in the bush garden, these are a few snapped over the last couple of weeks. First a collection of little creatures found under a sheet of loose bark on a Yellow Gum, these are Psocids or booklice.
Thanks M J S for id.

There are still a few quite small jumping spiders to be found, probably this season’s crop.

Sandalodes superbus.

Opisthoncus? species.

There are still some wasps on the prowl, this is a female White-spotted Ichneumonid, Echthromorpha intricatoria. She uses her ovipositor to inject eggs into pupae of moths and butterflies, particularly the admiral family.

A wasp mating pair, male and wingless female.

A longicorn beetle that came to the moth light, Symphyletes nodusus.

And Phoracantha semipunctata, the Common Eucalypt Longhorn.

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Crested Pigeons have increased from the odd bird a few years ago, to the point where we now see small flocks feeding or perched on power lines. They are frequently seen in the garden too, and are often taken by marauding Brown Goshawks.

Common Bronzewings have always been occasional garden visitors, and like the Cresteds clean up any feed grain left by cattle in the paddock.

Scarlet Honeyeaters have been very numerous this season, and this nice male has been competing with the New Hollands for nectar from the grevillea and hakea flowers.

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